"Am I the blind man? To an art historian it is part of the profession to
look and to think about looking, and with this profession the
complexities and challenges of different blindnesses become all the more
visible and evident. I find myself looking at Andrea’s images as part
of my profession. Before we meet, I know her through her images. I not
only look at them, I find myself drawn to them in a way I rarely
experience. What is the attraction, the fascination, of these images? If
it is a fascination I experience before them, am I not exactly at the
risk of being “blinded” by them? The Latin meaning of fascinare
is “to put under a spell” or “to bewitch”. Am I even allowed to speak
(as a professional art historian) if I am under a spell? Or does it
disqualify me that I am now “blinded” by her images"